Endesa: 40% Of Senior Staff Members Will Be Using Electrified Vehicles By 2020

Endesa – the largest electric utility company in Spain, announced this month that by 2020 as much as 40% of its senior staff members will be using “electric vehicles“.

However looking at the release, Endesa may not necessarily understand whats EVs in totay’s world really are. The Spanish utility intends to have 40% hybrid or electric vehicles (we are not sure whether hybrids means plug-in hybrids or conventional hybrids and plug-in hybrids).

“Endesa has launched a new plan to electrify the fleet of representational vehicles of its senior staff members. The aim is for 4 in 10 vehicles in the segment to be hybrid or 100% electric in four years (13% of the total fleet, around 340 vehicles). “

For pure electric cars, Endesa hopes to increase its fleet number from 52 to to 86 by the end of 2016. The electrified vehicles are available in six of the company’s main offices through internal car sharing service for employees.

Additionally, Endesa will also continue to build out charging infrastructure in Spain.

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Press blast:

“40% of Endesa’s senior staff members will be using electric vehicles by 2020

• This plan forms part of the overall aim of electrifying 80% of the company’s operating fleet by 2020 and continuing to promote electric mobility among its employees with regard to their private vehicles: The plan is to introduce approximately 3,000 electric vehicles.

• The second edition of the employee mobility plan is now underway, which, together with the first edition, will see 500 employees enjoying electric vehicles of their own.

• Endesa has multiplied the number of pure electric vehicles in its fleet by 4 over the last six years and plans to incorporate another 32 from now to the end of the year, which means it will end the year with 86 pure electric vehicles. It also has one of the largest fleets of hybrid vehicles: The company’s sales reps get about in over 400 vehicles a day.

• Endesa is committed to the electrification of demand as a way of complying with the objectives of the Paris summit in combating climate change; electric mobility is one of the main concepts of this strategy.

Endesa has launched a new plan to electrify the fleet of representational vehicles of its senior staff members. The aim is for 4 in 10 vehicles in the segment to be hybrid or 100% electric in four years (13% of the total fleet, around 340 vehicles). This project builds on another of the company’s initiatives, which is the recently announced 2nd electric mobility plan for employees.

In order to encourage its senior staff members to choose these types of vehicles, the company is going to offer to increase the amount they receive for renting: 20% or 40% more if it is hybrid or pure electric, respectively, during the first three years. From 2020, once the market is more established, the financial improvement will drop to 10% or 21%, respectively.

Furthermore, the company undertakes to extend the deployment of the charging infrastructure installations to Endesa’s main offices around Spain. If a traditional fuel vehicle is chosen, the company aims to reduce the emissions of this segment, even beyond the standards set by European guidelines. Therefore, even though senior staff members are free to choose their vehicle brand and model, there will be maximum emissions limits on their vehicles: 150 gCO2/km until 2019 and 120 gCO2/km from 2020. Therefore, as the use of hybrid and electric vehicles will be encouraged, on average the entire fleet of senior staff vehicles will have emissions below: 130 gCO2/km until 2019 and 95 gCO2/km from 2020.

The plan to replace the fleet of senior staff member vehicles for a less contaminating fleet forms part of Endesa’s measures designed to develop a more energetically sustainable transport model and thus improve the quality of life in cities; in which over 70% of the population will be living by 2050 (today it is 50%).

This is the company’s commitment to the electrification of demand as a way of complying with the objectives established by the Paris summit to combat climate change; electric mobility is one of the main concepts of this strategy.

Endesa’s various initiatives aimed at the internal promotion of electric vehicles include:

1. Mobility Plan for employees

In June 2015 the company launched the first mobility plan for employees, an initiative aimed at getting 100 employees to acquire an electric vehicle for private use. The project closed on 31 December 2015 with 158 electric vehicles acquired by the company’s employees, therefore exceeding all expectations. This figure represents approximately 10% of the electric vehicle market in Spain and the initiative will help to prevent the annual emission of over 300 tonnes of CO2 in cities.

The second edition of this plan was launched on April, which aims to reach another 300 employees. Once this edition comes to an end, 5% of Endesa’s workforce will have a private electric vehicle.

2. Fleet electrification

Endesa aims to electrify 80% of its operating fleet by 2020, which means, together with the mobility plan for employees, the company could reach the figure of 3,000 electric vehicles within the company.

Since 2010, as part of its fleet renewal plan, Endesa has replaced over 30% of its short-haul fuel vehicles with electric and hybrid vehicles. The company has multiplied the number of pure electric vehicles in the fleet by 4 over the last six years and plans to incorporate another 32 from now to the end of the year, which means it will end the year with 86 pure electric vehicles. Endesa is gradually replacing the fleet by installing smart devices (black box) in its entire operating fleet to study the behaviour and requirements of the vehicles in order to speed up the conversion to electric mobility. Approximately 70% of the cars currently have a black box installed.

Since 2008 Endesa also has the largest fleet of hybrid vehicles in Spain for its sales network: 420 units. With this initiative alone, the company has managed to prevent the emission into the atmosphere of the equivalent absorption capacity of 28,800 trees. Each vehicle of these characteristics emits one tonne of CO2 less a year than a vehicle with a diesel engine.

3. Car sharing

Endesa has launched a new electric vehicle car sharing service in six of the company’s main offices, to enable all the employees to carry out their work-related functions in urban environments in a sustainable and pollution-free manner. Endesa employees have an online tool for reserving the vehicle for hours or even full days.”

I find this quite underwhelming, I assume they are talking about company cars. If that’s the case why is a power company buying petrol cars? Why not only offer phev and ev’s as an option? You don’t have to accept a company car, it’s not forced on you, if you don’t like what’s on offer you can buy your own car. 40% by 2020 is pretty much only 10% better than the average in the Europe by then, assuming that they’re on track for the 2021 emissions standard. I assume the higher end vehicles that are used as company cars would probably be more like 40% ev/phev by then.